Soviet authorities say one of the atomic reactors at the nuclear power plant in Kiev was damaged. Radiation had spread very far and slowly revealing the lies of the Soviet Union
The treaty marked the first agreement between the two superpowers to reduce their nuclear arsenals, rather than simply limit their growth. It specifically required the elimination of all ground-launched ballistic and cruise missiles with ranges…
The first systematic effort to estimate the destruction to the Soviet Union that a U.S. atomic attack would cause and the extent to which the destruction would be decisive to the outcome of a U.S.-Soviet war.